Vacuum Compressibility and the W-Boson Mass Shift: A Hydrodynamic Approach to the CDF II Anomaly

The recent measurement of the W-boson mass by the CDF II collaboration (MW = 80,433.5±9.4 MeV) deviates from the Standard Model prediction by approximately 7σ. We propose that this anomaly arises not from new particle content, but from Non-perturbative Vacuum Polarization Effects in a Born-Infeld superfluid vacuum. We model the high-energy collision environment as a compressible medium where the local vacuum expectation value (VEV) is enhanced by hydrodynamic shockwaves. Our model, characterized by a critical scale Λ_crit ≈ 246 GeV, naturally fits the CDF II data while remaining consistent with earlier LEP results. We predict a specific saturation behavior for the mass shift at HL-LHC energies, offering a falsifiable signature for vacuum compressibility.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2025-11-24
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17695129
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High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
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Vacuum Compressibility and the W-Boson Mass Shift: A Hydrodynamic Approach to the CDF II Anomaly

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
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Vacuum Compressibility and the W-Boson Mass Shift: A Hydrodynamic Approach to the CDF II Anomaly

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Abstract

The recent measurement of the W-boson mass by the CDF II collaboration (MW = 80,433.5±9.4 MeV) deviates from the Standard Model prediction by approximately 7σ. We propose that this anomaly arises not from new particle content, but from Non-perturbative Vacuum Polarization Effects in a Born-Infeld superfluid vacuum. We model the high-energy collision environment as a compressible medium where the local vacuum expectation value (VEV) is enhanced by hydrodynamic shockwaves. Our model, characterized by a critical scale Λ_crit ≈ 246 GeV, naturally fits the CDF II data while remaining consistent with earlier LEP results. We predict a specific saturation behavior for the mass shift at HL-LHC energies, offering a falsifiable signature for vacuum compressibility.

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